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Peace Medal (From the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians).
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Creator
Duffield, Edward, 1730-1803, engraver.
Contributor
Richardson, Joseph, 1711-1784, struck by.
Title
Peace Medal (From the Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians).
Date
1757
Physical Description
Silver.
Is referenced by
Library Company of Philadelphia. Quarter of a Millennium. Philadelphia: Library Company, 1981, p. 315.
Stiefel, Jay R. “A Clock for the Rooms: the Horological Legacy of the Library Company of Philadelphia,” Antiquarian Horology 29 (6) (2006): 23-24.
Notes
Presentation medal with the bust of King George II on the obverse and, on the reverse, a Quaker man holding a peace pipe at a council fire with a Native American man. Duffield, a clockmaker, engraved the die; the silversmith Richardson struck it. It was the first peace medal made in America. Benjamin Franklin and members of the Friendly Association would distribute these medals to Native Americans as tokens of goodwill.
Exhibited in: Benjamin Franklin: In Search of a Better World (2005-2007); Library Company's exhibition, Quarter of a Millennium (1981).
Subject
George II, King of Great Britain, 1683-1760 -- Portraits.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures.
Calumets.
Indians of North America.
Indigenous peoples.
Quakers.
Genre
Commemorative medal.
Location
OBJ 873
Accession number
OBJ 873
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Art and Artifacts Collection
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